Re: [Monotone-debian] monotone removed from testing; shall we disable checks and upload?

[Zack Weinberg]

On 9/22/07, Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> wrote:
> Monotone was removed from testing on 2007-09-02 and I see no new
> upstream version on the horion and no progress on resolving the test
> failures despite Zack's best attempts.

Mostly this is because I've been swamped with other work, although it
*would* really help if I had access to any of the problem
architectures.

> In the mean time, boost has entered testing and gc++-4.2 became the
> default C++ compiler on 2007-09-14 in testing on all architectures
> except m68k.

According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/boost.html boost has
*not* entered testing, and there's still a huge list of blockers at
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=boost too.

I have *finally* found code I might be able to adapt to do globbing
without boost::regex, so hopefully 0.37 will be decoupled from boost,
but I don't know when Richard plans to do the next release or whether
I'll have the time to do the necessary adaptation.

> How about uploading monotone 0.36-2 with the checks disabled, so it
> has a chance to enter testing?

I think this would be a disservice to the users of the platforms where
the tests fail; the binary is comprehensively broken for those
targets, and since it's a stack corruption bug, I'm not really happy
with it for the targets where it appears to work, either.

FWIW the problem seems to be somewhere inside sqlite.

zw